How do I print text strings to a given length, ie, if they are too long I want them truncated (from the end)? > format.char("123", width = 1) does not do what I want, ie, "1". --- Göran Broström tel: +46 90 786 5223 Department of Statistics fax: +46 90 786 6614 Umeå University http://www.stat.umu.se/egna/gb/ SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden e-mail: gb at stat.umu.se